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This template produces a series of links to various reliable sources and biographical topic search engines to help find additional reference material for articles. It is designed for talk pages and should not be used in articles themselves.
{{find biographical sources}}
– the article title is used by default as keywords for the search queries
{{find biographical sources|your search keywords}}
– specify your own search query in positional param one
Parameters [ edit ]
The template takes one optional positional parameter:
|1=
search keywords for the query. default: the article page name.
Examples [ edit ]
{{find biographical sources}}
(default search) ⟶
Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
{{find biog sources|william gladstone}}
(example with param 1 set) ⟶
Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
{{find biog|Jean-Michel Basquiat}}
⟶
Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Sources [ edit ]
The template includes links to the following searchable online sources and search engines:
Britannica – Encyclopædia Britannica
British Library – National library of the United Kingdom
EoWB – Encyclopedia of World Biography, by Gale Research; online results provided by University of Michigan
Google Books – Books from Google's digitized corpus
Guardian – The Guardian newspaper, U.K.
Infoplease – Online dictionary, encyclopedia, and almanac
JSTOR – Full-text search of academic journals
LoC – Library of Congress
MUSE – Project MUSE : humanities and social science content from academic journals and societies
NYT – The New York Times
WP Library – The Wikipedia Library , open research hub for Wikipedia editors
Note on styling [ edit ]
This template generates output in Html inline-level element context, and so may be used with all the normal in-line wiki markup to alter the font style. For example:
''<small>{{find biographical sources|laurent clerc}}</small>''
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Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Template data [ edit ]
Template parameters[ Edit template data ]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter Description Type Status Subject 1
The first unnamed parameter contains the name of the person or subject to be searched.
Example
Mahatma Gandhi
Line optional
See also [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Find_biographical_sources&oldid=1060724238 "
C a t e g o r i e s :
● S o u r c e - f i n d i n g t e m p l a t e s
● C i t a t i o n a n d v e r i f i a b i l i t y m a i n t e n a n c e t e m p l a t e s
H i d d e n c a t e g o r y :
● T e m p l a t e s u s i n g T e m p l a t e D a t a
● T h i s p a g e w a s l a s t e d i t e d o n 1 7 D e c e m b e r 2 0 2 1 , a t 0 8 : 0 5 ( U T C ) .
● T e x t i s a v a i l a b l e u n d e r t h e C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s A t t r i b u t i o n - S h a r e A l i k e L i c e n s e 4 . 0 ;
a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n .
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● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a
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